CTAP7 believes that Digital Storytelling is a key activity in engaging our students as well as teaching the new information literacy skills our students will need to compete in the 21st Century Marketplace. CTAP7 Offers Podcast training and Digital Story telling (podcasting training)
Not sure if Digital Storytelling is for you? Discovery Education's Storytelling Blog Tech-Ease's Mac Podcasting Tools Site
More Digital Storytelling Than You Can Shake A Stick At:
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Grammar Podcasts
Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. Whether English is your first language or second language, Grammar Girl’s punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Mignon Fogarty is the creator and host of Grammar Girl.
2007 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards • 2007 Winner Favorite Audio Program – Podcast Peer Awards • 2006 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Peer Awards
When they self teach, kids choose to learn by TEXT text last. WHY?
We think it’s important to understand how children assimilate new ideas off the internet so quickly and use those techniques to teach standards
Learn About Media Literacy- Elizabeth Thoman One of the BEST educational futurist writers Want to see what's REALLY going on out there?
Use COMMERCIALS TO TEACH - over 220,000 available @ YouTube, right now!
TV commercials are surgically precise in their idea delivery due to the :30 timeframe. When well done, commercials tell a complete story in half a minute. The best commercials entertain, and if you watch carefully, you'll see any number of literary devices being used ~ especially irony.
TV commercials will make your classroom more efficient!
Teaching foreshadowing? Instead of digging through book after book and page after page, you COULD show and diagram 10 commercials in one period. And we all know reps are the key to mastery. Don't wait until the end of a book to ask one question on flashback - front load the book with a period of commercials and send the kids on a scavenger hunt - while they read.
TOOLS for teachers:
Over 40 Lit devices defined with FREE MP3 audio clips > Check out the main page for THOUSANDS of historical speeches
DOWNLOAD YouTube videos directly to your itunes account FREE: Videora.com (pc only, Macs use Toobl.TV)
Store all your commercials in your iTunes account (iTunes handles videos, too).
Teachers will find the new Tuxtyping to be a more moldable tool they can use in there classrooms.
It is easier now (and will become even easier) to group the types of exercises, words and characters into a lesson!
Everything you need to know about EDUCATIONAL WIKIS
Tutorials and Guides
EduWikiTorial - A tutorial about educational wikis written by Susan Cline, Instructional Technology, MA.
A Wiki Walk-Through, from TeachersFirst. A great tutorial about what a wiki is, why to use wikis in education, and how to use wikis in education.
Welcome to the World of Wikis - Help pages put together to use with primary schools in the UK - Sally. Thanks to wikispaces for the help they have given me! Good Luck!
to Accelerate Learning!!
videos are available @ YouTube. BUT YouTube is blocked at school, you say.
Good for grades 3-10
8p•ARTS.pdf
8•pARTS Instructions.doc
Download a Characterization Lesson Plan from the CTAP7 squad (standards aligned) :
Google Advanced Search.pdf
Comments (0)
You don't have permission to comment on this page.